General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

Regional Health Custer Hospital

Custer, SD · ~81 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Regional Health Custer Hospital runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Regional Health Custer Hospital: 3.8 TCR = 50% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Regional Health Custer Hospital safety composite

Regional Health Custer Hospital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Regional Health Custer Hospital: 1.8 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2017

Regional Health Custer Hospital's TCR rose 3.9 from 1.8 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Custer, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 3.8 · 50% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #24/73
  • PHOTO Casey County Hospital
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Casey County Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Regional Health Custer Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Regional Health Custer Hospital averages 3.8 TCR (50% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Regional Health Custer Hospital TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=5.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Regional Health Custer Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

Regional Health Custer Hospital (81 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Regional Health Custer Hospital
Regional Health Custer Hospital (81 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Regional Health Custer Hospital has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 5.7 1.4 4 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Custer

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Custer, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Casey County Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnolia Regional Medical Center 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Memorial Healthcare 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PHMG Peace Harbor Clinics 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls Branch 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sands Wall Systems, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFNC - SF - Sioux Falls 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE RDU, LLC dba Boyds Gunstock Industries 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custer State Park 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Health Care Center Custer 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Electric Cooperative 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27144 STORE 27144 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Walcott St Warehouse Location #01 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KIK Chicago 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vee Pak - Hodgkins, IL 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bliss 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Wellsville LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cuba Manor Inc 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverbend Assisted Living Community 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flint St. Plant 81 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.